“…But the resulting laws, a compromise tailored to protect the indigenous populations, were never applied. Guaman Poma's work would lay forgotten in shelves for more than 300 years, and Las Casas texts were barred from publication after his death: by 1600, the XVIth century "free speech" practice was already a thing of the past 75 . Colonial order appears, according to the terms of Las Casas, as "a tyranny by fact, not by law" 76 characterized by the predominance of de facto power structures, and a persistent disregard towards the laws emanating from the central authority.…”